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Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

Black and white print of a group of men and a woman holding an infant mourning an individual lying under a sheet in the foreground with face exposed.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • Black and white print of a group of men and a woman holding an infant mourning an individual lying under a sheet in the foreground with face exposed.

Date:

1920

Artist:

Käthe Kollwitz
German, 1867-1945

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Käthe Kollwitz

Title

Memorial Sheet for Karl Liebknecht

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1920

Medium

Woodcut with additions in brush and black ink, on cream Japanese paper

Dimensions

Image: 35.7 × 50 cm (14 1/16 × 19 11/16 in.); Block: 38.5 × 52.8 cm (15 3/16 × 20 13/16 in.); Sheet: 45.1 × 57.2 cm (17 13/16 × 22 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Heller Fund

Reference Number

2002.478

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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